Who is the 'father' of Pi Network?

In it, Nicolas Kokkalis is considered the "soul" of Pi Network. He is a Greek professor who teaches at Stanford University (USA), specializing in computer science and blockchain technology.

He is also the founder of the online gaming platform Gameyola which won the Facebook Foundation Award in 2009. Before blockchain and Ethereum (ETH) were born, he wrote his thesis on the topic of Smart Contract on cryptocurrencies. Vitalik Buterin - the creator of ETH cryptocurrency is the student of Nicolas Kokkalis.

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Before implementing the Pi Network project, Nicolas Kokkalis had many years of research on cryptocurrencies

Besides professional activities, Nicolas Kokkalis is also CTO of StartX - fund that supports Stanford students to start businesses. Since its inception in 2011, StartX has helped 1,300 successful startups, including more than 700 unicorn companies such as Branch, Lime, Life360, Patreon, Poynt, Kodiak Sciences .

StartX's investors and partners include Amazon, Google Cloud, GitHub, BREX, DAIKIN, Sumimoto bank, Silicon Valley bank, pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca . Stanford University and Stanford Health alone have invested 200 million USD to fund members of the StartX community.

Since 2017, Nicolas Kokkalis confirmed that StartX is expanding its own blockchain accelerating platform, under which all StartX incubation projects will become part of the platform. In the future Pi Network will become the virtual currency created for the StartX ecosystem.

On the Pi Network homepage, Nicolas Kokkalis describes himself as follows: "I am a strong believer in the technical, financial and social potential of cryptocurrencies, but disappointed with the current limitations. I am committed to bringing the power of blockchain to many people by improving experience and building value for everyone.I am working on this project with a user-centric to island philosophy. Reverse the development of new blockchains: Launch in Beta, invite members to the network, repeat the protocol with those members and decentralize the design results. Pi Network - the new cryptocurrency and a peer-to-peer network that currently operates in more than 150 countries and is introduced in 32 languages. 

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Dr. Chengdiao Fan is from China

Besides Professor Nicolas Kokkalis in charge of engineering, not to mention Dr. Chengdiao Fan majoring in Anthropology from Stanford University. Ms. Chengdiao Fan focuses on human-computer interaction and social computing, in particular how we must use technology to positively impact human and social behavior. She also founded a startup and built an email production platform that expands conversations through community services.

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Mr. Vincent McPhillip was from the island nation of Trinidad - Tobago

Mr. Vincent McPhillip - leader of Pi Network community is a member of Stanford Blockchain Research Center. After graduating with a BA in Political Science from Yale University, Vincent McPhillip did not follow Wall Street banking, but joined the nonprofit Bridgespan company to deploy hundreds of millions of dollars for education and development. Workforce for communities across America.

Coming from different countries, the trio of founders of the Pi Network represent ethnic integration and share the same goal of using the Pi so that the global population can participate in the world of crypto. 

David Pac

Update 30 January 2021